Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Simple setup make Windows 7 run more smoothly

Long-running speed of Windows has been an annoying problem, although compared to previous generations of Windows 7 operating system performance, and hardware demand has decreased, but the pursuit of speed has been a constant topic of computer users. In most cases, a large part of the system depends on the speed of the computer's hardware configuration, in order to get a better user experience requires a faster processor (CPU) and a more powerful graphics card (GPU), more memory capacity.

That there is no way to upgrade the hardware without upgrading the system under the premise of running speed? The answer is definitely yes, there may be friends, it is simple, closed system services, using antique-level "Windows Classic" theme, the use of "castrated" version of Windows 7, or use some third-party optimization software. Here we want to talk about the small days, under normal circumstances suggest that in general users do not use third-party optimization software to optimize, because the use of optimization software can not directly see the changes made to the system software, or software and can not tell the user based on the actual situation What options can be changed, so the blind can not use optimization software to enhance system performance, but may lead to system configuration is not normal, affecting the normal use of the computer. In addition, if useless service, use the Windows Classic theme and other methods can indeed enhance the smooth running of the system, but I think most users still do not like the second era in the 21st century antique level using the "classic" interface, with this approach to improve system operation fluency, may be a bit "difficult to let go."

Zhe Li Xiao-Tian no longer guessing, the way is there, Microsoft has long provided our customers a lot of performance options, the user can be required to improve system performance or make the computer more beautiful. So in the end is how to change the system performance options? Some friends may have guessed, is in the Performance Options dialog box, the system.

Open this dialog box, there are many ways, usually by clicking the "Start" button - right-click "Computer" - select "Properties" option, and then will open the "System" panel and then follow step 2 in Figure 1, click the link and the steps 2 tabs, step 3 button to open the "Performance Options" dialog box; In addition to this approach, we can also press the keyboard on the [Windows logo + Pause / Break] key combination to open the "System" panel , then follow the steps 123 to open this dialog box; there is a fastest way to press the keyboard Windows Logo + R [] key combination to open the "Run" dialog box, and in the dialog box, enter "sysdm.cpl" knock hit the Enter key to open the "System Properties" dialog box, then click the "Advanced" tab, then click the Performance Options box of the "Settings" button to open the dialog box (note that this difficult to directly in the "Start" menu bar to perform a search, only through the "Run" dialog box to do).
Open the "Performance Options" dialog box, the thing that catches our eye is dense options up to twenty, we can adjust these subtle options to improve system performance speed. Man of few words that began operating it, first click the "Let Windows choose the best computer settings", then the system will default to select the "Smooth edges of screen fonts" and "button on the window and use the visual style of" two box . Then check if only these two options, we can use the Windows 7 enhanced font display technology (ClearType technology) and Windows Themes (Windows Basic user interface) (Note 1). But this time, if we click the "Apply" button will find Windows 7 to automatically switch to the Windows Basic interface, so that the user interface is clearly unable to meet our users, so when we need to choose one which can enhance the user experience but without affecting the system running smoothly options.
As the options are many, not 11 to explain here, just a few examples to explain the options available for your reference:
Save taskbar thumbnail preview: Enable Windows 7 taskbar icon thumbnail caching, Windows will save time to thumbnails into memory, which will help improve the display of large windows taskbar thumbnails, the proposed computer with high-performance CPU users turn this option off, large-capacity memory users turn this option.
Enable transparent glass and enable desktop composition: The two options are open to options for the Windows Aero theme, it is recommended graphics card with support WDDM1.1 the user selects this option. As the Windows 7 graphical user interface display card for the most part are processed, and will not cause a large burden on the CPU, open the Windows Aero user interface and does not reduce the system speed.
Show thumbnails, instead of the icon: Select this option to automatically clear the "Folder Options" View option "always show thumbnails, never display icon." And established in the file directory where the file thumbnails, such as pictures, contents of a folder, document, video, etc., the first time this option will result in longer hours and open a folder (the folder to retrieve the file, the file the establishment of a thumbnail, especially pictures, video, multi-document type file folder), but it is easy to understand and more intuitive file and folder contents, suggest the need for users to open.
Under the shadow of the window display: This option is used to display the shadow of the window frame, so that more three-dimensional Windows Aero window, and further for the Windows Aero user interface to provide better visual style. Selecting this option will increase the demand on the graphics card does not cause a large burden of the CPU, the user can choose on demand.
Labels for the icons on the desktop using the shadow: This option will display the name of the desktop icon shadow, it is recommended this option open, otherwise the contents of the desktop wallpaper more abundant in the case could not see the icon name.
In most cases, to open the above options, and default selection of "Smooth edges of screen fonts", "button in the window and use the visual style" are two options that can allow users to have a nice Windows Aero Glass user interface, and can make the system run more smoothly. After changing the above settings, the system will automatically switch to Windows Basic user interface, then right-click the desktop space, and then select "personalize", and switch the other Aero theme can be restored. While the above steps are very simple, but is actually very useful, of course, different users may have different options, based on individual need to select the appropriate set of performance is the best.

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